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Google today announced that it has stopped showing the names of authors in its search results.<p>The company first started showing authorship on its search results pages a few years ago. At first, this was a pretty complicated process (I remember a Google engineer walking me through it back then), but …

Sony has very quietly started selling its 13.3-inch e-reader, Digital Paper, via the web to US addresses.<p>Sony's Digital Paper E Ink e-reader/tablet hybrid has now been made available to buy, directly through the Sony website, as well as from the licensed resellers through which the tablet started …

We've been hearing rumblings about an iPhone 6 event next month for some time now, but Apple has made it official: the company's next affair will indeed be held on September 9th. While there aren't the usual clues as to what we can expect -- the invite merely states "Wish we could say more" -- the …

Google has been working on self-driving cars for some years now, but the company has just revealed that it is working on yet another ambitious and autonomous vehicle project. According to the BBC and <i>The Atlantic</i>, the secretive Google X team has been working for two years on Project Wing, a …

Apple may be planning to delay the launch of its iWatch until 2015, according to a new report from KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. Echoing several past reports that have also alluded to a 2015 launch date, Kuo suggests that difficulty manufacturing the device will lead to its postponement.<p>We …

The experiment is now a reality<p>Seeing tweets from people you don't follow, and that aren't retweets? That's no longer an experiment, but a feature, Twitter says. A new change to the service is surfacing tweets from users people aren't following, something Twitter suggests will make things "more …

The potential: A computer that can not only see and hear, but understand what's going on around it.<p>Can a silicon chip act like a human brain? Researchers at IBM say they’ve built one that mimics the brain better than any that has come before it.<p>In a paper published in the journal Science today, IBM …

A new study shows experts are split on whether artificial intelligence will boost—or decimate—the economy.<p>Here's what we can agree on: The robots are coming. They're coming to your house, to your doctor's office, to your car, and to your favorite coffee shop. By 2025, technologists believe …

<b>The times are changing. And so are the preferences of smartphone users in the world's two biggest markets - India and China.</b><p>Theses changes do not bode well for global market leader, South Korea's Samsung Electronics.<p>Recent industry figures have shown that during the second quarter of the year, …

What if a dead phone could send text messages? What if smartwatches could send WiFi signals without using up all their battery power? That's the idea behind backscatter wireless devices, which reflect ambient wireless signals instead of generating the signals from scratch. That's a lot easier on …

If you take your motorbike rides seriously enough to want a smart heads-up display in your helmet, you can now do something about it. Skully has just launched a crowdfunding campaign for its Android-powered head protector, now named the AR-1; plunk down $1,399 and you should be one of the first to …

EA's new subscription service is now available to Xbox One owners. After launching in beta at the end of July, the publisher has today opened up EA Access to everyone who owns Microsoft's new console. The service gives you unlimited access to select EA games for $4.99 a month or $29.99 per year, …

The Surface Pro 3 is an exceptionally-designed, and well-engineered piece of hardware. Microsoft developed a number of innovative features that set the Surface Pro 3 experience apart from pretty much anything else out there, and the device truly lives up to the marketing tagline, “The tablet that …

It may sound like off-the-wall leftiness, but there are clear and convincing arguments for a nationalised mobile phone network<p>Nationalisation is a taboo among the political and media elite, its mere mention guaranteed to provoke near-instantaneous shrieks of "dinosaur!" and "go back to the 1970s". …

Government wants to stop wealthy people benefiting from complicated schemes that allow them to dramatically reduce the amount they will owe after their death.<p>Savers could be forced to pay inheritance tax while they are still alive, under a new drive against tax avoidance planned by the …

<b>Five former energy regulators have suggested that too much regulation may have hindered competition among energy suppliers, maintaining high prices.</b><p>They suggest that since 2008 regulation has been too aggressive.<p>The former regulators include Stephen Littlechild, head of electricity regulation from …

Rate at which businesses plan to take on staff surges according to research by accountancy group BDO<p>British companies plan to hire new staff at the fastest rate in 16 years, according to new research from accountancy group BDO.<p>The BDO Employment Index, which measures businesses’ hiring plans for …

These British entrepreneurs shunned university and set up shop instead - earning billions in the process. We chart how they did it<p>While an ever-increasing number of school leavers are going to university, these British billionaires prove that a degree isn’t the key to financial success.<p>There are …

Lending to first time buyers hits record levels, as the desire to own a home negates high house prices and looming interest rate rises<p>Mortgage lending to first-time buyers has hit a seven-year high as the group continues to pile in to the housing market, despite high property prices, according to …

Both airports seized on record passenger numbers as justification to expand and build controversial new runways<p>Executives at Heathrow and Gatwick have clashed over rival expansion plans after both airports seized on record passenger numbers as justification for building new runways.<p>Heathrow said …

Analysis of lenders in Europe shows those in Spain, Italy and France have seen their stock market values soar in the last year<p>Britain's banks are still among the biggest in Europe, but their positions are slipping, according to an analysis from financial information company SNL Financial.<p>Despite …

Surge in self-employed feeds fears for economic recovery as policy-makers worry it may be sign of labour market weakness<p>Britain is dubbed the self-employment capital of western Europe in a report published on Tuesday that feeds concerns over the strength of the UK's economic recovery.<p>Figures from …